HAH, alleged Bellagio Chips robber nabbed !

[JFK]

trying to cash a high value chip, great upbringing by his father

http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/02/0...ustrav00000003

[2MuchMark]

what a doofus.

[woj]

that didn't take long...

[DateDoc]

Yeah, saw that on the news. Not the brightest.

[xNetworx]

15k bail. Nice to be the son of a Vegas judge.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

ADG

[DirtyDanza]

he didn;t get caught trying to cash a 25k chip...


AOL may have the facts wrong..

He was selling berries (25k chips cause they colered cranberry)

hs been selling them since late dec and they have been on his trail since 8 days after the robbery

he was staying at the belagio doing exactly like I told everyone he would

playing with the chips in poker.. there is no trail in poker cause it's all person to person not "house" to person


anyways he pissed someone off that ratted him out then an undercover got him to admit he robbed the belagio by saying he was setting up a crew to rob some more casino's and wanted him to help.. then the UC/CI said we can get the belagio.. and this idiot said.. "I already did"

what an idiot....


I read the whole police report if anyone wants it... pretty long read but good

[DirtyDanza]

what I thought was funny is everyone really believed the whole "rf chips" inside the chips...

that made me laugh out loud...

[RaiderCash_Dominik]

Im surprised he got away so easy.
Eat this Ocean 13.

[Scott McD]

Sucks to be him !

[DirtyDanza]

Originally Posted by RaiderCash_Dominik

Im surprised he got away so easy.
Eat this Ocean 13.

dood it's not that hard to walk in to a casino with a gun specally MGM properties (all security is un armed) and demand chips and leave...

any fucking idiot from the projects could do that.....


Im not impressed I would have been impressed if he masterminded a way to have the upperhand on the casino

[baddog]

Originally Posted by DirtyDanza

I read the whole police report if anyone wants it... pretty long read but good

upload it so we can read, please

[pamon]

agree... want to read that moron's police report. i would've left the country and tried to sell them to whomever I could. idiot

[Spunky]

It was only a matter of time before he fucked up

[L-Pink]

LAS VEGAS ? The scenes that led to the Bellagio bandit's downfall look less like "Ocean's Eleven" and more like "America's Dumbest Criminals." Bragging about a big gambling score with high school buddies over rounds of shots in Colorado. E-mailing pictures to a total stranger ? dated and signed "Biker Bandit" with two $25,000 Bellagio chips.
Losing $105,000 gambling at the scene of the crime in Las Vegas, but cashing out nearly $209,000 and apparently hoping the casino wouldn't notice.

The deceptively simple burglary lit up the Internet ? appealing to anyone who's ever had fantasies about pulling off a major score against a casino giant. But police say Anthony Carleo's shoddy plan after stealing $1.5 million in chips unfolded like a badly played poker hand.

"At one point I think he asked me, 'What do I do?'" said Matthew Brooks, a poker enthusiast from Washington, D.C., who went to the FBI after trading e-mails and phone calls with Carleo. "And I'm like, 'I don't know what to tell you, man.'"
Carleo, the 29-year-old son of a Las Vegas municipal judge, declined to comment to reporters Friday.

Police say he's the helmeted bandit who entered the Bellagio on Dec. 14, brandished a gun and made off on a motorcycle with the chips in denominations from $100 to $25,000. He was arrested Wednesday, a day after an undercover officer bought four $25,000 chips from him, then offered an invitation ? to become part of a crew that would rob casinos, including the Bellagio.

Carleo's response to officers: He'd already robbed the place.
In between the brazen heist and the arrest, as Carleo gambled and partied, the cops were hot on his tail, according to an arrest report.

Two days before Christmas, Bellagio security told police that a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army tried to cash a $25,000 chip along with a friend. The worker told police the chip was dropped into his pocket from an unknown man while he took donations from a walkway between the MGM Grand and New York-New York casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.

Police confiscated the chip.
Just after Christmas, Carleo spent time in his childhood hometown of Pueblo, Colo., buying "beer and shots for everybody," according to a friend.
"He had a lot of money on him and he told us, you know he lives in Vegas and that he had just gotten lucky gambling and that he won $80,000 gambling," Tiana Woodruff told Pueblo station KOAA-TV.

By New Year's Eve, Carleo was back at the Bellagio, losing $72,000 in one night and spending a week in January at the casino living for free on the casino's dime as a high roller.

A source told police that Carleo liked to play poker and frequented the Bellagio's no-limit Texas Hold 'em tables with $10 and $20 minimum bets.
On Jan. 4, Carleo lost an $11,000 pot, then left and came back a short time later with $5,000 in chips, the source said.
His activity at the tables didn't match what he was cashing out, and casino workers noticed.

Casino chips are like gift cards ? they're extremely limited in where they can be redeemed. And the Bellagio swiftly replaced its line of $25,000 chips on the floor and announced they would no longer circulate those like the ones stolen.
That's why Carleo was trying to get rid of his them on a secondary market, and he sold stolen chips to an undercover officer twice in the days before he was arrested.
After losing big at the Bellagio, Carleo told people he knew from the poker tables he was behind the heist. A police informant told officers he'd heard about Carleo from a friend.
"The friend also told the confidential informant that Carleo had mentioned that he was hurting for money and might have to do something drastic in the next several days," the report said.

On Jan. 16, Carleo approached Brooks on Two Plus Two, a popular Web forum where the heist was a hot topic, with players discussing how the bandit might try to turn his chips into real money, Brooks said. Eventually, they talked by phone.
At first, Carleo spoke vaguely at first about the chips, Brooks said, but gradually he became more specific.
"That's when I kind of got more pointed in questions and asked specifically: 'Did you do this? Is this your deal or did you just get some of the chips and you know the guy?' And he said, 'No that's me,'" said Brooks, 29.

Carleo e-mailed several pictures to Brooks depicting two $25,000 Bellagio chips ? affectionately known as "cranberries" to gamblers because of their color.
"Cranberries are good for the liver!" reads the postscript on the note in the picture.
Brooks called the FBI, local police and the casino.
Carleo was arrested Wednesday night without resisting, and admitted his involvement in the robbery, police said.

Despite the suspect's seemingly unplanned actions after the heist, his return to the Bellagio wasn't all that surprising, said Dave Schwartz, a former casino security officer in Atlantic City who now runs the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Usually, he said, casino burglars come back to the scene of the crime to cash in chips or to try to steal more.
Schwartz said the case showed how casinos and police are more measured and methodical than hasty when it comes to catching casino thieves.
"It's not like they're going to chase the guy down in a shootout or do that kind of stuff, but they are going to follow through and eventually lead people to get tripped up," Schwartz said. "You've got to wonder what you can get away with."

It was evident, Brooks said, that Carleo didn't have much of a plan.
"It was not Brad Pitt talking to me," he said, referring to one of the stars of heist film "Ocean's Eleven." "It was not George Clooney."


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[DirtyDanza]

Originally Posted by baddog

upload it so we can read, please

stand by let me find

[DirtyDanza]

here you go baddog


http://www.danzabucks.com/gfystuff/vegaschips.pdf


look how fucking stupid he was on some of the stuff......


if he would have just played it cool he would have been fine....





edit: my attorney is making me post this statement

anything I am posting or talking of is public knowledge and I am not posting any evidence or confidential information Police reports are public information in any city or town

[baddog]

Originally Posted by DirtyDanza

here you go baddog


http://www.danzabucks.com/gfystuff/vegaschips.pdf


look how fucking stupid he was on some of the stuff......


if he would have just played it cool he would have been fine....





edit: my attorney is making me post this statement

anything I am posting or talking of is public knowledge and I am not posting any evidence or confidential information Police reports are public information in any city or town

Reading

[baddog]

Wow. Terrible writing, but it is one of the few I "kind of" believe. There are a lot of C/I's in this, I wonder if the mob thing is real. I had been thinking about that as I was reading, before it was first mentioned. This just made more scenarios come to mind.

For some reason, I have a feeling he was glad to get caught. Who knows.

I laughed at the 29 y/o student/gambler, and found it interesting that the first field interview was at the Bellagio. That was straight out of Ocean's 11.

[DirtyDanza]

Originally Posted by baddog

Wow. Terrible writing, but it is one of the few I "kind of" believe. There are a lot of C/I's in this, I wonder if the mob thing is real. I had been thinking about that as I was reading, before it was first mentioned. This just made more scenarios come to mind.

For some reason, I have a feeling he was glad to get caught. Who knows.

I laughed at the 29 y/o student/gambler, and found it interesting that the first field interview was at the Bellagio. That was straight out of Ocean's 11.

pretty fucking ballsy huh.....

Im with you... there is a bunch of stuff thats kind "unmentioned"

if he owe's "someone" 250k thas a decent amount of money and that could really only be a loss from gambling....

I mean you can fail a biz with 250k easy but in his case I doubt it....


here's my thing Im born and raised here.. ive met many uhhh alleged "mobsters" in my days....


if this kid that got arrested was a "made man" (what ever that means in the movies) he's not going to be be running around the belaigio poker room claiming that he is... and if he was... that would be more of a reason to put a err "get angry at him" from an alleged mobsters point of view....


I have baby pictures of me being held by guys who were "alleged" one for sure is Lefty and a guy from kansas city im not saying any fucking names... but point being you would never know... these guys don;t run around saying im a fucking mobster blah blah....


heres a story everyone knows Rick Rizzolo from crazy horse here in town ... fuzebox and I were playing poker at the south point the other day and this fucking idiot was all oh im connected with "frank rizzo" he kept saying im connected to him.. blah blah don;t wanna messaround... so finally after like 30 min of this... oh forgot to mention he kept saying Frank Rizzo from crazy horse.. so he was talking about rick.... finally I go "you mean Rick" then he starts challenging me on it...

again I grew up here.. Rick is a family friend ive spent many nights at his house... he's not some "gangster" but whatever he has a rep.... he keeps on and on about it so I figure it's poker why not bet him over it... just to shut him up.....

any ways the guys left with his tail between his leggs embarrased but the point being ... those guys just don't say that shit....



other stuff in there that I wonder about is the fact that they keep saying "no firearms registered to his address" yet they say he has access to 5 firearms but make no mention of them being illlegal or anything of the sort?


and last...


WHO THE FUCK ROBS THE BELAGIO THEN GO;S BACK TO THE BELAGIO POKER ROOM BRAGGING ABOUT IT TRYING TO SELL THE CHIPS TO OTHER PLAYERS?

so your right baddog he may have only had one way out ... Jail... and if he went to jail that way for owing "some guys" money they really could not be mad I mean he was trying to get them money? I dunno?


reminds me of a story I once heard from one of those "alleged" guys

he was telling me about how he knew a guy that owned a pinball company back in the day and was going broke... so he robbed a bank in downtown atlanta for like 2 million dollars (back then that was a shiton this was the 40's he said) anyways he got caught and when they found him they only found a new work truck and like 400k in cash... so he was arrested and sent to jail.. sentenced to like 7 years or something like that....

well his 2 kids were able to take his pinball company over and somehow over the next 7 years they were able to invest like 1.5 million dollars into it and it became one of the largest pinball makers of it's time, when the old man got out of prison he was worth more than the 2 million he stole.....






fuck I gotta stop getting stoned and writing .......

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by pimpporn

15k bail. Nice to be the son of a Vegas judge.

All the shit he is charged with, and only 15k bail - he'll probably flip them a cranberry, and be out like that...



ADG

[SmokeyTheBear]

my first assumption was pretty close. My bet was he was a problem gambler, and that he would be back trying to slowly bet his chips.

don't know why people always fall for the whole fake cops posing as gangsters trick..

[DirtyDanza]

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

my first assumption was pretty close. My bet was he was a problem gambler, and that he would be back trying to slowly bet his chips.

don't know why people always fall for the whole fake cops posing as gangsters trick..

seriously... if I didn't know you and grow up with you before.... your not getting invited in after


im sure id be correct in thats how 99% of this board feels